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Severe drought, hail-storms and heavy snowfall have left many communities in Mid- and Far-Western Nepal in a precarious food security situation. The poor growing conditions resulted in decreased yields for wheat and barley by 20 to 40% compared to normal production levels. Crop production in some VDCs decreased by as much as 70%.

Last monsoon a large number of Terai districts were severely affected by one of the worst floods the country had experienced in a decade. A rapid inter-agency flood assessment (WFP,UNICEF and SC Alliance) was conducted in the second-half of August leading to an emergency response where WFP distributed2,365 Mt of rice, 364 Mt of pulses, 154 Mt of vegetable oil and 46 Mt of salt to almost 200,000 beneficiaries in 12 of the worst affected districts.